sequel

This tapestry is the sequel to «Connected», "covering very different ground and ending up in unanticipated places", behind the mountain on the upper left side of last year's tapestry.

While reading the transformative book The Entanglement by Alva Noë, the weaving of this new tapestry gained a new direction, opening up new meanings along a line of questions that I had been avoiding. Perhaps the tapestries were not about nature, but more about finding myself within nature. 

Photo of tapestry «Interconnected» (102 x 82 cm) by Monica Pinheiro CC BY-NC-SA (CC), May 2026.

December

"You mix your metaphors, and a seed becomes a lantern glowing, or a flashlight, or a firefly hatching". Rebecca Solnit (2025). No Straight Road Takes You There. Photo by Monica Pinheiro CC BY-NC-SA (CC) December 2025.

February

"What if we could fashion a restoration plan that grew from understanding multiple meanings of land? Land as sustainer. Land as identity. Land as grocery store and pharmacy. Land as connection to our ancestors. Land as moral obligation. Land as sacred. Land as self. (..) Land as home." Robin Wall Kimerer (2020). Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. 

Photo of «Weaving roots to a better world» tapestry (86 x 78 cm) by Monica Pinheiro CC BY-NC-SA (CC) 2024.